The mystery and superstition of Saint Valentine dates back all the way to the marriage of Zeus and Hera in Athens and the Roman Festival of Lupercus. The one that is believed to be true by many though is that a priest named Bishop Valentine who married young people illegitimately, even as young as 12,was caught doing so by Emperor Claudius who believed married soldiers made poor soldiers. He had the bishop arrested and put in jail. There Valentine fell in love with the jailers daughter and left her a not at before his beheading that said, from your Valentine.
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